Beep symptoms
Table 3. Beep symptoms
Symptom or error | FRU or action, in sequence | |
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One beep and a blank, unreadable, or | 1. | Reseat the LCD connector. |
flashing LCD. | 2. | LCD assembly. |
| 3. | External CRT. |
| 4. | System board. |
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One long and two short beeps, and a blank | 1. | System board. |
or unreadable LCD. | 2. | LCD assembly. |
| 3. | DIMM. |
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Two short beeps with error codes. | POST error. See “Numeric error codes” on | |
| page 39. | |
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Two short beeps and a blank screen. | 1. | System board. |
| 2. | DIMM. |
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Three short beeps, pause, three more short | 1. | DIMM. |
beeps, and one short beep. | 2. | System board |
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One short beep, pause, three short beeps, |
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pause, three more short beeps, and one short |
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beep. |
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Only the cursor appears. | Reinstall the operating system. | |
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Four cycles of four short beeps and a blank | System board (security chip) | |
screen. |
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Five short beeps and a blank screen. | System board | |
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No-beep symptoms
Table 4.
Symptom or error | FRU or action, in sequence | ||
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No beep, | 1. | Make sure that every connector is | |
and no POST. |
| connected tightly and correctly. | |
| 2. | DIMM. | |
| 3. | System board. | |
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No beep, | 1. | Reseat DIMM. | |
blank during POST. | |||
2. | System board. | ||
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The | A | ||
| password is set. Type the password and | ||
| press Enter. | ||
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The | A | ||
| password and press Enter. | ||
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